Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devote a major share of time and energies to basic policy matters,'' marks a milestone in U.S. aviation. After his World War I service as the U.S.'s "ace of aces" (26 German aircraft), genial, jut-jawed Eddie Rickenbacker plumped hard throughout the discouraging '20s for U.S. recognition of the importance of airpower. He joined Eastern in 1934 when it was a subsidiary of General Motors, raised $3,500,000 in 1938 to reorganize the company as an independent. Under his tightfisted, no-nonsense management, Eastern has never had an unprofitable year, went off subsidy...
...ever played baseball since he discovered the game existed as a toddler back home in The Bronx. Rocky was the youngest of five children born to Rocco Colavito, a sturdy, hard-working iceman, and Angelina Spodafino. Rocco and Angelina came separately to the U.S. in the early '20s from Bari, Italy, met and married in New York City. Rocky's boyhood heroes were his big brothers, Dominick and Vito, who taught him to throw and hit on the paved playing field of Public School...
...knowing South Texas as if it were his own backyard. He was born in San Antonio, brought up in Alice, Duval County, worked in his father's bank in Alice, and cotton farmed after leaving the University of Texas. He began buying up oil leases in the '20s all over South
Think back to when you were a teen-ager-maybe in the days of Rudy Vallee or Johnny Mercer or the Charleston of the Roaring '20s. Well, if you weren't what we call a square, you would have had your "teenage fun" with these artists. It was your generation (with all respect) that broke away from the slow ballroom dance to the faster jitterbug, big apple, Charleston...
...subject of the story is Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols (Actor Kaye), a hot cornet and well-known bandleader of the late '20s, whose "Five Pennies" -Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Miff Mole, Jack Teagarden. Peewee Russell, Fud Livingston and Wingy Manone all worked for him at various times-were later worth their weight in greenbacks. In real life, Red missed the big money in the '30s and made a comeback in 1944. His film biography is heavy with heroics and sentimentality, but Satchmo is almost worth the price of admission. At 59, he still grins...